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faux 3d buildings in google maps

Andrew Hitchcock [PersonRank 10]

Saturday, February 10, 2007
17 years ago3,098 views

This is new to me and I haven't seen anyone mention it yet.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=seattle,+wa&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=47.604919,-122.331626&spn=0.003791,0.010858&om=1

They have some fake 3d buildings for a number of cities. It looks like they took a snap shot of the 3d buildings from Google Earth from above and put them on the map.

Haochi [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

New to me as well.
I think this update comes along with this one.
http://google.blognewschannel.com/archives/2007/02/09/google-maps-adds-subway-stations-buildings/

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I'm not sure I see what you see... do you have a screenshot?

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